Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-07
A BRIGHT ARRAY
OF NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL PARTS OF d
INTERIOR OF THE STATE.
A Large Collection Of the Best Things ROund IN tn
Columns Of the Weekly Journals Of
the Back Counties.

Wild Ducks are very plentiful along the
Potomac.
A Grand Army post is to be organized at
Glenville.
G. D. Haverty, of Writ county, has slid
out and left his creditors.
1t is said but one deer has been killed
in Hardy county this year.
The Y. NJ. C. A. of Martinsburg cleared
1926 by a recent fair held in that place.
An attempt was made lately to rob the
mail between Jacksonville and knawPs
Creek.
The n. n. & NJ. V. Company are putting
down about 4, ZOO feet Of side track at St
Adams.
Telephone service has been ordered for
the executive and state departments at the
capitol.
A free fight took place at M%artinsburg a
few days ago, between a party OF young
men and some gypsies.
Isaac Holmes, of Tyler county, recently
sold a lot of railroad ties which were cut
and hewed forty years ago.
Last Saturday Ransom Fields, aged 25
years, was 30 seriously injured while blast
in coal in Ferguson's coal bank, at Hunt
ington, that he died the next day.
Mr.. Thomas H. Mason, business ana
ger of the West Virginia Democrat, acct
dentally shot off the index finger of his left
hand whilst hunting on Saturday last.
w. F. Hartman, who was charged with
killing G. z. McNuty, a boss on the Clinch
Valley extension of the Norfolk 4 Western
Railroad, has been acquitted on the ground
of self-defense.
1t will he remembered that d. J. Quill,
OF Fairmont, was shot and killed in Fay
cite county, being supposed al the time to
be o ease of suicide. 1t was afterwards
charged that he was murdered. The wife
of the man in whose house he died suici-
ded last week and left q written statement
which her brother got and refuses to give
up. The murder theory has gained
strength from this fact.
The Fairmont Mder says a narrow es.
cape from a secOud horror like that which
occurred in the Newburg shaft in January,
1856, took place in the same mine on
Tuesday. The gas in the shaft igRited
from an explosion of powder used by a
miner in blasting, and the flames were
communicated to the coal. The miners
succeeded in getting safely out 1t is
thought that it will he necessary to Hood
the mine before the fire can be extin-
guished.
Mr.. +. s. Cummings, of WevertOn,
started from Harper's Ferry in a spring
wagon drawn by a rather spirited and
valuable horse to drive To his home. A
short distance beyond the Harper's Ferry
bridge, the horse became frightened at a
passing train and became unmanagable.
lie pulled the team down a steep bank at
the point where he took fright. Mr..
Cummings Jumped out and the team rolled
on into the river, where the horse was
drowned.
John Cash, who lives at Camp Ground
Hollow, near Elk Two-mile creek, Ka-
nawha county, was assaulted on Tuesday
by a body of men, who attempted TO
drive him from his home. Mr.. Cash so
vigorously defended himself that the men
were driven from the premises. Mr.. Cash
went 20 Charleston and swOrc out war
rants for the arrest Of the offenders, thir-
teen in all. The warrants were placed in
the hands of Constable ID. Z. Kegley, who
succeeded in arresting all the parties, and
brought theEi before Justice J. r. Brodt,
who released them upon their own rCcog-
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